Louis is a current PhD researcher in the Wallace lab. He joined in 2022 to complete his doctoral research in collaboration with the UK Government Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), focussing on interfacing biocompatible chemistry with synthetic biology for green chemical transformations.

Louis grew up in London and first moved north in 2012 to study at the University of Aberdeen for his BSc in Biochemistry. He moved on to complete a collaborative MSc in Industrial Biotechnology including a placement at Edinburgh based biotech, Ingenza. After his studies Louis was hired and worked as a molecular biologist at Ingenza for four years delivering biological routes to produce high-value chemicals and proteins for customers across sectors. He specialised in the design and implementation of high-throughput and automated strain engineering strategies and enjoys engineering a variety of prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbes including E. coli, P. putida, B. subtilis, R. sphaeroides, S. Cerevisiae, P. pastoris and Y. lipolytica. Louis was the recent president of the European Synthetic Biology Society (EUSynBioS) and now sits on their Steering Committee.